Peter Becker
Internal Medicine · East Syracuse, NYNPI 1568444537
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 1 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, International Rehabilitative Sciences, Inc. That places this record below the midpoint for internal medicine clinicians in NY, where the typical reported total is $194.
Across 1 payment — averaging $14.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- International Rehabilitative Sciences, Inc$15
Across 2 payments — averaging $288,566 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Novartis$577K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$15100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| International Rehabilitative Sciences, Inc | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$15 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.
Other internal medicine in East Syracuse
- David DoveEast Hampton$12.3M
- Bruce BergerBrooklyn$3.4M
- Nicholas RobinsonBuffalo$2.9M
- Stephen SaletanNew York$2.6M
- Ziad AliNew York$2M
- Scott BeegleAlbany$1.9M
- Anthony MartinezBuffalo$1.6M
- Javier MoralesGreenvale$1.3M
- Ricky HsuNew York$1M
- James UnderbergNew York$953K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.